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oapen-20.500.12657-768712023-10-20T02:11:27Z Poor Man's Fortune Roll, Jarod white working class conservatism anti-unionism in metal mining white nationalism metal mining in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma strikebreaking zinc industry lead industry working-class ideas about capitalism working-class ideas about disease Western Federation of Miners American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organizations International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers leasehold mining working-class manhood and masculinity working-class nativism working-class xenophobia working-class racism anti-monopoly tariffs Mickey Mantle market incentives working-class responses to government regulation risk at work whiteness Tar Creek Picher, Oklahoma Joplin, Missouri Galena, Kansas bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJK History of the Americas bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man's Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal. With painstaking research, Roll shows how the miners' choices reflected a deep-seated, durable belief that hard-working American white men could prosper under capitalism, and exposes the grim costs of this view for these men and their communities, for organized labor, and for political movements seeking a more just and secure society. Roll's story shows how American inequalities are in part the result of a white working-class conservative tradition driven by grassroots assertions of racial, gendered, and national privilege. 2023-10-19T07:43:44Z 2023-10-19T07:43:44Z 2020 book ONIX_20231019_9798890858078_10 9798890858078 9781469656281 9781469656298 9781469656311 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76871 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9798890858078.pdf 9781469656311.epub https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469656298/poor-mans-fortune/ The University of North Carolina Press The University of North Carolina Press 10.5149/9781469656311_Roll 10.5149/9781469656311_Roll 165ebb72-a81f-4229-898c-5f49a35f306e 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9798890858078 9781469656281 9781469656298 9781469656311 The University of North Carolina Press 360 Chapel Hill [...] National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man's Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal. With painstaking research, Roll shows how the miners' choices reflected a deep-seated, durable belief that hard-working American white men could prosper under capitalism, and exposes the grim costs of this view for these men and their communities, for organized labor, and for political movements seeking a more just and secure society. Roll's story shows how American inequalities are in part the result of a white working-class conservative tradition driven by grassroots assertions of racial, gendered, and national privilege.
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